Partial human skeletal remains were found in Yreka on Friday. According to a press release from the Yreka Police Department (YPD), at around 1:41 p.m. on Nov. 23, two citizens were walking in the north Yreka Creek area in Yreka when they discovered possible human remains in the creek.

YPD responded to the scene and located a partially submerged body in the creek. With the assistance of the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office dive team, YPD recovered the remains.

The identity of the remains has not yet been determined and the cause of death is under investigation, the release stated.

This is the second body found in Siskiyou County in less than a week. On Nov. 20, the SCSO assisted southern Oregon’s Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in a search and rescue effort that resulted in the recovery of a body from the Applegate area near the California/Oregon border.

According to Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey, the body found in the Applegate area is being treated as a homicide.